'The chances were one in a million': Woman who had her ovaries removed learns that one had GROWN BACK when she rushed to the hospital in severe pain

▶Meg Summers, 31, from Alabama, had frequent ovarian cysts and endometriosis since she was was teenager
▶When her first ovary was removed, she was told she'd never conceive without IVF - but soon gave birth to a baby girl
▶After her second ovary was removed, it grew back and formed another cyst
▶Meg was told she had Ovarian Remnant Syndrome, a very rare disorder

One Alabama woman was sure that removing her ovaries would mean the end of her problems with ovarian cysts - that is, until one of those ovaries grew back.

Meg Summers from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, struggled with reproductive health problems since she was a teenager. But after giving birth to her daughter, the local DJ for Tuscaloosa's B101.7, WBEI-FM thought she could finally move on and have her uterus and ovaries removed.

Shockingly, as she wrote in an essay for xoJane, she developed Ovarian Remnant Syndrome - a rare disorder in which ovarian tissue regenerates itself.

Since Meg was 16, she battled ovarian cysts and endometriosis, a disorder in which tissue that lines the inside of the uterus also grows outside the uterus.

Her first cyst was larger than a grapefruit - and while it turned out to be benign, her doctor 'assumed the worst' and gave her a laparotomy - an invasive surgery which involves making a large incision in the abdominal wall - to remove it.



'It was just the beginning of a decade of pain and frustration,' she says.

I'm afraid I'll end up growing sideshow starfish ovaries again
Meg went on to need seven more laparoscopies, a surgery that uses a thin tube that is pushed through an incision to detect problems like cysts and remove tissue. She also had a second laparotomy.

For five years, all of Meg's cysts developed on her right ovary. So, at the age of 21, she decided to have that ovary removed. Initially relieved to be putting the ideal behind her, Meg was 'devastated' when, two weeks after having her right ovary removed, she developed her first cyst on her left ovary.

Not quite ready to remove that one too, and lose her last chance of conceiving a biological child, Meg juggled birth control, hormones, and anti-inflammatory pills to quell her pain. However, she says, nothing seemed to work, and she resigned herself to the fact that she would have to struggle with health issues for the rest of her life.

A few years later, when she was 26, her pelvic pain specialist was removing more endometriosis and scar tissue when he found that her ovary had 'twisted itself into a ball' behind her uterus. A large mass of scar tissue had also formed around metal staples which a previous doctor had unintentionally left inside of her. Removing them provided her with some relief.

But the surprises weren't over.

Through all of Meg's doctor visits, she had been told that she would never be able to have a baby without the help of IVF. So when she missed a month of birth control due to an insurance mix-up, she wasn't worried. She believed that her unhealthy ovaries were birth control enough. However, soon after her month off the pill, Meg learned she was pregnant.
While she had managed, against all odds, to conceive naturally, her pregnancy was not without issues, including preeclampsia and bed rest. Her daughter was born 13 weeks early.

After her unexpected pregnancy, Meg believed that she could now rid herself of her issues once and for all. In the past, she had hesitated to get a hysterectomy because she was still holding out hope that she would one day have a child. Now that she had one, she could go through with the major surgery.

Her gynecologist removed her uterus but left her last ovary alone. Both Meg and her doctor hoped she would have no complications.
But two weeks later, that ovary developed another grapefruit-sized cyst. Doctors finally removed that one too.
Finally, after years of surgeries and pain, Meg was sure her ordeal was over. After all, she no longer had ovaries or a uterus.

Or so she thought. Three months after her second ovary was removed, she was back in the hospital with more abdominal pain. A doctor told her she had an ovarian cyst. Meg said that that was impossible, as she didn't actually have ovaries anymore.

The doctor explained that she had Ovarian Remnant Syndrome. A tiny bit of her ovarian tissue had been left behind when it was removed and, in a rare twist, it regenerated itself.

'My chances of developing it were like one in a million,' she says.

Meg had the remnants removed, but she will no longer let herself believe that she has seen the last of her health problems. She is still experiencing issues with endometriosis and is afraid that she'll 'end up growing sideshow starfish ovaries again', referencing how the marine animal can regrow lost or damaged arms.

Still, she says her pain levels are down - she puts them at a four out of ten - and adds that that's 'huge' for her.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3120626/Woman-ovaries-removed-learns-one-GROWN-rushed-hospital-severe-pain.html

Women wahala.

With wetin my eyes don see for this world, omo, I wish I could unsee them.

This is super story

Shockingly, as she wrote in an essay for xoJane, she developed Ovarian Remnant Syndrome - a rare disorder in which ovarian tissue regenerates itself.

The above is where scepticism kicks in if not before. It's the writer of the piece you are reading saying he too read it in a journal the author wrote.

It's like I write that buda has 3 heads and a writer then writes that buda has 3 heads and you all must believe buda has 3 heads.

Below sums it up for me, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's pulled, because it is very shoddy journalism and is unacceptable in the country that's published in!

I don't believe it. Nature plays tricks sometimes. Maybe she can regrow some parts. I believe a few mutants can do such.

Wow, this is just wow.

I wonder if this isn't something similar to what many Nigerian women claim their wombs were removed only for it to somehow grow back instead of mean in their many testimonies intended to give glory to their gods of men.